POLICY, PLACE, and POWER in an evolving city: BOSTON’S RACIAL EQUITY HISTORY PROJECT

History is everywhere in Boston. Every neighborhood, street corner, and building embodies the people, communities that have occupied those spaces previously. The history of Boston’s systemic racism and communities’ acts of community building, activism and resistance are baked into both our understanding of our city, as well as its physical geography.

This timeline represents policies, events, and projects to the map and timeline that describe flashpoints, battlegrounds, and structures of inequity in the City of Boston.

PROJECT GOALS

Our goal is to illustrate. To identify histories of racial injustice and celebrate communities’ acts of social resiliencethrough community involvement and activism that moved spaces and institutions and policies toward justice and equity.

Our goal is also to learn. The combination of policies and citizen actions over time define our city and our current stateequity/inequality. What are the key elements in each campaign or event that have made forward momentum towardracial equity successful?

Our goal is also to apply. What are the equity projects you are involved in that define Boston’s current socialresilience? Are there elements missing in your current constellation of support? Help create a foundation for new insight aswe assess current and future projects.